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Posted by Mary Chastain on September 09, 2019 17 Comments
UK Speaker of the Commons John Bercow emotionally announced today that he would step down from his post by October 31, which is the Brexit deadline. He will step down immediately if parliament votes for an election tonight. From The Telegraph:
I would like to make a personal statement to the House. At the 2017 general election i [sic] promised my wife and children it would be my last. This is a pledge i [sic] intend to keep. If the house votes tonight for an early election my tenure as Speaker and MP will end when this Parliament ends.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on September 07, 2019 34 Comments
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to defy the Brexit delay bill, London-based newspaper The Telegraph reported. The House of Lords, the unelected Upper House of the UK Parliament, passed a bill on Friday blocking a no-deal Brexit ahead of the October 31 deadline. The bill, expected to be signed into law by the Queen on Monday, aims to force the British government to delay Brexit if it fails to reach a deal with the European Union.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on September 04, 2019 32 Comments
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to push for a no-deal Brexit suffered a setback today after the country's parliament passed a bill to delay the Brexit beyond October 31. The motion was voted by 327 votes to 299, giving it a majority of 28 in the Lower House. The bill has now moved to the Upper House.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 31, 2019 31 Comments
The European Union is ready to withdraw the October 31 deadline in a bid to prevent a no-deal Brexit, French President Emmanuel Macron said. The French announcement, reported by the British newspaper Daily Telegraph, comes days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to suspend the nation's parliament for five weeks, a step likely to curb lawmakers' ability to pass resolutions challenging a possible no-deal Brexit.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 28, 2019 59 Comments
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has moved to suspend the British parliament for at least a month. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has approved this request, allowing for a suspension until October 14. The decision comes as pro-EU Members of Parliament (MPs) are lobbying to prevent a possible no-deal Brexit.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 27, 2019 62 Comments
The European Union expects the United Kingdom to pay a £39 billion ($48 billion) 'divorce bill' even in the case of a no-deal Brexit. The refusal to pay the amount could hurt the UK's prospects of entering into a trade agreement with the remaining 27 member state of the bloc. The UK is set to leave the EU on October 31.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 25, 2019 60 Comments
In an ongoing war of words, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told European Council President Donald Tusk that he will go down in history as 'Mr No-Deal' if the European Union continues with its refusal to change the withdrawal agreement. The remark came after the European Council President, who head the EU's executive body, said that Prime Minister Johnson should accept the withdrawal agreement handed by Brussels to his predecessor Theresa May as he "will not like to go down in history as 'Mr No Deal'."

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 22, 2019 16 Comments
Ahead of his European trip, President Donald Trump has supported British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he tries to negotiate a withdrawal agreement with the European Union. "That’s a very tough bargain they are driving, the European Union. We are going to see if we can work something out," President Trump said on Wednesday. The U.S. President will be in France this weekend to attend the annual Group of Seven (G-7) summit.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 15, 2019 14 Comments
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused some British Members of Parliament (MP) of collaborating with the European Union to prevent Brexit. "There’s a terrible collaboration, as it were, going on between people who think they can block Brexit in parliament and our European friends," Prime Minister Johnson said during a question-and-answer session on Facebook.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 25, 2019 21 Comments
Newly-appointed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to take his country out of the European Union within the next 99 days. "We will come out on 31 October, no ifs and no buts," Boris Johnson said in his first public speech as prime minister on Wednesday. "The British people are tired of waiting. The time has come to act."

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 23, 2019 29 Comments
Boris Johnson beat Jeremy Hunt today to win the Tory leadership in the United Kingdom, which means he will replace outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May. Johnson received 92,513 votes while Hunt only secured 46,656.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 10, 2019 5 Comments
Three senior UK lawmakers in the upper house of the parliament have resigned from the Labour Party over its 'institutional Antisemitism.' David Triesman, party's former general secretary, Ara Darzi, former British health minister, and Leslie Turnberg, announced their resignation on Tuesday. Triesman wrote in his resignation letter that the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party was "no longer a safe political environment for Jews or other opponents of antisemitism. It is time to recognize the reality." He also accused Corbyn and his top aides of being antisemitic.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 10, 2019 29 Comments
United Kingdom Ambassador to the United States Kim Darroch resigned on Monday after a war of words with President Donald Trump over remarks in leaked cables. These cables showed Darroch describing Trump's administration as "diplomatically clumsy and inept" while he believed it would not become "substantially more normal." Trump returned fire by saying his administration "will no longer deal" with the ambassador.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on June 22, 2019 15 Comments
The UK junior Foreign Office Minister has been suspended after a scuffle with a 'climate' protester. The altercation took place when close to forty Greenpeace activists, most of them women, stormed a black-tie dinner in Central London.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on June 18, 2019 11 Comments
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has sided with U.S. President Donald Trump in his ongoing Twitter spat with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Hunt said he "150 per cent" agreed with the U.S. President's comments on Khan. Present Trump had shared a tweet by the conservative British columnist Katie Hopkins highlighting rampant knife crime in London. "London needs a new mayor ASAP. Khan is a disaster -- will only get worse!" he commented on the tweet.
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